On circumstance..........................

     As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow;  and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.
     Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

-James Allen,  As A Man Thinketh